1st Edition

Entrepreneurs and Insolvency Law The Right to a Fresh Start

By Remigijus Jokubauskas Copyright 2025
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses the discharge of debts procedure in relation to insolvent entrepreneurs, covering the protection of human rights under insolvency law. The process of discharge of debt is a key mechanism in insolvency law when addressing individual over-indebtedness. This book promotes the “fresh start” principle, which is the primary objective of the debt discharge process for insolvent... Read more

1. Introduction

2. A Fresh Start as a Leading Goal

3. Right to Discharge and Exercise of Human Rights

4. Notions of an Entrepreneur

5. Harmonisation of the Discharge Procedure in EU Law

6. Actions and Models of the Discharge Procedure

7. Non-Dischargeable Debts

8. Processing and Protection of Personal Data

 

Conclusions

Biography

Remigijus Jokubauskas is an attorney at law and an associate professor of insolvency law at Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania). He teaches national and international insolvency law and is the author of numerous articles on insolvency and enforcement law. He has also published a few books on insolvency proceedings of enterprises and natural persons in Lithuania. He has been working as an expert on various human rights projects of the Council of Europe and gives lectures and workshops on private international law and insolvency law to judges and insolvency practitioners.